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† digˈnosce, v. Obs.
[ad. L. dīgnōscĕre to recognize apart, distinguish, f. di-, dis-, di-1 + (g)nōscĕre to know.]
To distinguish, discern. a. trans.
a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. iv. (1677) 200 All the Painters and Writers were called for dignoscing the letters and draughts. 1645Liberty of Consc. 16 The true worshippers of God cannot be certainly and infallibly dignosced from the false worshippers. 1671True Nonconf. 391 The consideration..whereupon the right dignoscing of such deeds doth mostly depend, is oftentimes most difficult.
b. intr. To discern; to decide.
1641Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 344 Who shall have pouer to dignose and take cognitione whither the same falles within the said act of pacificatione. 1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 539 A committee appointed to dignosce upon the supplication.
Hence † digˈnoscible a., discernible; † digˈnoscitive a., having the quality of discerning.
1671True Nonconf. 189 As dignoscible by..these characters, as the night is by darkness. 1674[Z. Cawdrey] Catholicon 22 That dignoscitive power..whereby their spiritual sense discerns betwixt good and evil. |